Tag Archive | "“Santa Rosa”"

twitter contest — win a night’s stay in santa rosa during wisdom of we 2010

Monday, August 23, 2010

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To have some fun and let even more people to know about Wisdom of We 2010 I am asking my Twitter friends (and anyone who comes across this blog post)  to help spread the word.  Each person who helps spread the word will be entered into a drawing for a one night stay at [...]

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Robert Scoble, Shel Israel and the Naked Reunion at #WOW10

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

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In 2006, a book called Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers revolutionized the online community and helped blogging become a way of life. The co-authors, Shel Israel and Robert Scoble have become leading social media icons and leaders, both online and offline. On Friday, September 10th the [...]

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sonoma county foursquare day badge.

Friday, April 16, 2010

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Friday, April 16 has been named the official Foursquare Day. To those who don’t use Foursquare, we are a bunch of crazed stalkers who tell people where we are at all times.  But for those in the ‘know’ it is a great marketing tool for people and businesses! After tomorrow, anyone who comes in contact [...]

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cupcakes.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

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February is over… The first Sonoma County Restaurant Week has passed and Sift: a Cupcakery has opened just a block away from my office in downtown Santa Rosa.   The shortest month of the year had been one of my busiest months since I started working on my own. And it was amazing…. I have gone into [...]

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sonic.net’s twitter contest.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

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I posted a few months back about how I won 10lbs of bacon exclusively because of Twitter.  Well, today my biggest prize that I have won on Twitter was installed – The internet! A few weeks back I received a DM stating that I won the Sonic.net prize for their latest Twitter contest celebrating their 15th [...]

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social media classes in sonoma county.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

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If someone asked me at the age of eight what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have had one of three different responses: A lawyer, a teacher or the person who writes commercials.  The third dream of mine is the one that I ended up pursuing and even though my dream [...]

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customer service done right.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

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There has been a recent epidemic of blog postings that have been critical of the lack of customer service that a few wineries have provided, including two recent ones from me (here and here).  With the ever-expanding blog posts about everything from what people had for breakfast to the wine they drank before going to [...]

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why you should hire a freelancer.

Friday, February 20, 2009

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I was just recently asked by a winemaker friend of mine if I have any marketing agency recommendations for him.  After he told me he was looking for an agency to create a print ad, my first question to him was why he wanted an agency to do this for him when it would be [...]

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social media can help sonoma county businesses through the downturn.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

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Yesterday two more stories were in the Press Democrat about Sonoma County businesses laying off people and cutting back on production.  Agilent Technologies and one of my favorite food brands, Amy’s Kitchen, both have been hit hard by the recession.  Both companies say they are cautiously optimistic about the future.  This [...]

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wine bloggers conference.

Friday, October 24, 2008

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It is all about the First Annual Wine Blogging Conference this weekend. The entire Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa will be taken over by some of the best professional wine lushes in America. My dumb ass was too much of a procrastinator when it came to actually purchasing a ticket so I wasn’t [...]

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